By Pronunciation, Clauses

It was a curious business. It made things very awkward for foreign businessmen who, when faced with a few stumbling words of French or German from their British counterparts, were put in the difficult position of deciding how to guide the conversation gently back to a language that was...

Hello all I thought I could smell food. There is something odd about the sentence that begins: 'As a nation that places much importance on eating...' I think it's the fact that there's no grammatical connection between the two clauses. It might be worth considering: ''As China is a nation...

Hello again, Neon. Regarding these two words, please listen again: Some dependent clauses begin with 'that', the restrictive relative pronoun. (Other dependent clauses begin with 'which', a restrictive and non-restrictive pronoun.) However, 'that' as a demonstrative pronoun or demonstrative...